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[[File:Scaphosepalum_lima.jpg|thumb|''Scaphosepalum lima'']]

'''Common Name:''' The File Shaped Scaphosepalum<br />
'''Scented:''' no<br />
'''Light Requirements:''' deep shade<br />
'''Temperature Requirements:''' cool to intermediate<br />
'''Blooms:''' spring<br />
'''Flower Size:''' 2cm<br />
'''Synonyms:''' *''Masdevallia lima'' F. Lehm. & Kraenzl. 1899

Found in Antioquia, Colombia as a small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte or terrestrial at elevations of 1800m to 2500m with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, acute leaf that gradually narrows into the slender, channeled petiole and blooms on a loose, flexuous, successively many flowered, to 15cm long, inflorescence with ovate, conduplicate, verrucose floral bracts that arises from low on the ramicaul and holds the single flower well above the leaf.